We want to make sure that everyone who wants to be involved can be, so we are publishing the notes of our initial meetings to keep you up to date.

Also, so that anyone who might benefit from our work in the coming days has access to not only the product but the process that launches a local DLAD effort.

Meeting 1 of the DLAD Vanguard Team was on 20 June 2023 at 9am via Zoom.

The meeting included representatives of

Jackson County Community Long-term Recovery Group – LTRG
Jackson County Community Organizations Active and Disaster – COAD
Southern Oregon University, Institute of Applied Sustainability
Local Innovation Works
Humane Leadership Institute

Our agenda: (And notes)

Introductions
Questions about DLAD
Vanguard goal is to capture as complete and accurate a list of disaster-affected people as possible in the days after the event
Elements required to respond
- Roles – team leaders – thoughts on commitment to DLAD
- Prototype for data collection
- Data collection volunteers
- Tech leadership and support
- Analysts
Questions about the Vanguard
- Do we have a document of plans, decisions and timelines? Yes, that’s all built into the web pages. We did that because we don’t know where disaster will strike this summer and we wanted people to be able to leverage the thinking that we’ve done so far no matter where they are.
- What is the geographic scope of DLAD this summer? Our team will focus on Jackson County for this summer but we have made the resources available to anyone with a web connection so that they can create what they need for their local community in the event of a disaster this summer.
- Should we be working with community trust organizations and releases of information from day one or should we focus on getting a complete list this summer and handle some of the more challenging aspects with later versions? This will be discussed in our next meeting. Our sense is that a complete list is the most valuable contribution we can make this summer. We can focus on efficiency and transparency in the coming months once the data is collected. We cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good this summer.
Takeaways
- Contact list – come to our next meeting if you’re interested in joining the DLAD Vanguard Team
- Another meeting to define and fill roles? Yes, and we will discuss some scoping decisions that need to be made before summer.
- Who will host that meeting? Stephen and Bret
- Glossary of disaster related terms and acronyms can be found here